What I am

I see things you do not

I feel what you cannot

I think what you want

I believe what you will not

I am who you are not

I think I am smart

I think you really are not

I should be like you, I thought

I was told that a lot

If I was like you, then 'me' would rot

I tried to achieve a lot

I tried being me but I forgot

I forgot and thought I was what I was not

I remember someone who changed me a lot

I think it was so in the future, hide, I will not.

I recall when I left…I put them on the spot,

I left for a guy with whom I had no shot

I found out later that he loves me not

I look around me now at the empty lot

I know that he left me here to rot

I don't know if he knows that he's taught me a lot

I now know what I am and what I am not

I am a girl, who tried very hard,

I am a girl with a failed heart

I am a follower not a leader at all

I am me.